Car-door hanger.



. L. PRoUlnFoovT.

CAR DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED 90131, 1'911.

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Patented-Dec. 17,1912.

K Hangers, of which the uni-fran ROBERT L. PROUDFOOT,

CAR-130GB, HANGER.

1,04%?01. Specification 0f Letters Patent latenteol Decal?, i912.

Application filed October 31, 1911. Serial No. 657,887.

top, side and bottom edges of which are bound with metallic reinforcing strips 8, so as to strengthen the door and allow for wear, the door being locked by means of a latch 9 of any ordinary type.` Y

The door 7 is supported in upper and lower tracks, each comprising spaced paral- To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, ROBERT L. PRoUDrooT, a citizen of the United States, residing at .Richwood, in the. county of Nicholas and State of West Virginia, have invented new and useful lmprovements in- Car-Door following is a speciiication. lel inner an outer metallic bars 10 and 11, The invention relates to car doors, and respectively, the inner bars being of slightly more particularly to the class of c ar door reater length than the outer bars, and are fastened to the side wall 5 of the car body by means of bolt fasteners, 12, the said inner and outer bars 10 and 11 being connected at intervals by means of transverse stay rods which prevent the contracting or spreading of the bars with relation to each other.

The tracks are disposed above and below the door opening 6 in the side wall 5 of the car, and arranged between the inner an outer liars 10 and tween the stay rods 13, are spherical-shaped bearing rollers 14, the same being integral with supporting led in the inner and outer rollers 14. being so each other that at all times the door 7 contact with two rollers, both at its top and bottom edges, irrespective of door is in closed, opened, orpartially opened position; Overhanging the upper track and fixed to the side l 5 of the car body is a ledge wal strip 16, which latter serves as a shield or tra-clrsl to protect object of the invention is the provision o a track in which a car door may freely and easily slide for the opening and closing of the same, without requiring physical exertion on the part of an operator,

The primary andthat will not bind or become caught during movement thereof. A Another 4objectof the invention is the rovision of a track which may be easilyand readily applied to a car body for suporting and permitting free sliding of the said door.

A further object provision of a track is simple in construction, liable and eiiicient in its purpose, an expensive in manufacture.

llfith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the yconstruction,"combination and arrangement of parts, as wil be 4hereinafter more' fully described, illustrated'in the accompanying drawings, an pointed out in the claim hereunto appende In the drawings: Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevationof a car body, showing the door supported in the tracks constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical` transverse sectional view-` thereof. ig. 3 is a similar Y view. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. -1.

Similar reference characters indicate oorresponding parts t iroughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings designates a portion of the side wall of a car body which is constructed in the ordinary well-known manner an is,- provided with the usual door openin 6 therein, adapted to be closed by means o a slidingdoor of the invention is the of this character which thoroughly remrotecting cover for the the same from snow, ice, The door will freely travel yupon the-rollers A14,'without the possibility thereof, or becoming caug t when being swung from closed to opened position, or vice versa.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it is thought that the construction and operation of the invention will bereadily understood, without requiring a more extended explanaby numerals, 5 .510B- 4 dlll/*hams claimed is:

The combination with a car body havin a door opening, tracks" arranged above and opening, each track comprising below said door inner an of identically constructs g 11 thereof, midway bewhether the of binding l outer spaoel parallel bars, a plurality of spherical rollers having journal connections with said bars, a door slidably mounted between said parallel bars, and said parallel bars of each track extending above and below said rollers to provide a housing there* ROBERT L. PROUDFOOT.

Witnesses:

W. L. THOMAS, B. H. SKINNER. 

